Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winning Poet

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The Good Doctor author Barron Lerner and his father, Dr. Phillip Lerner

Phillip Lerner (right), with his brother Allan, and parents, Meyer and Pearl. Circa 1950.
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Phillip is the subject of his son Barron Lerner's book The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (2014, Beacon Press).

Phillip Lerner in medical school, 1958.
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Phillip is the subject of his son Barron Lerner's book The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (2014, Beacon Press).

Phillip Lerner (left) in medical school, 1958.
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Phillip is the subject of his son Barron Lerner's book The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (2014, Beacon Press).

Louis Weinstein (front row, center) and his infectious diseases team, circa 1962. Dr. Phillip Lerner is immediately to the left of Weinstein.
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Phillip is the subject of his son Barron Lerner's book The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (2014, Beacon Press).

Dr. Phillip Lerner and his son, Barron, at the beach. circa 1962.
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In The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (2014, Beacon Press), Dr. Barron Lerner tells the story of the two men, who practiced medicine in very different times.

Doctors at Tufts, circa 1964. Dr. Phillip Lerner is in the top row, far left. His mentor, Louis Weinstein, is in the front row, second from the left.
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Phillip is the subject of his son Barron Lerner's book The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (2014, Beacon Press).

In The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (2014, Beacon Press), Dr. Barron Lerner tells the story of the two men, who practiced medicine in very different times.

Phillip Lerner (third from left) and friends at a Case Western Reserve Medical School reunion.
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Phillip is the subject of his son Barron Lerner's book The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (2014, Beacon Press).

Barron, at his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, with his father, May 1982.
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In The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (2014, Beacon Press), Dr. Barron Lerner tells the story of the two men, who practiced medicine in very different times.

Barron at his wedding, with his father, 1990.
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In The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (2014, Beacon Press), Dr. Barron Lerner tells the story of the two men, who practiced medicine in very different times.

Barron with his mother and father during their visit to Seattle in 1991.
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In The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (2014, Beacon Press), Dr. Barron Lerner tells the story of the two men, who practiced medicine in very different times.

Barron's father receives a plaque commemorating the inauguration of the Phillip I. Lerner, MD Cleveland Citywide Infectious Diseases Conference, 2002. The stiffness from his Parkinson's disease is clearly present.
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Phillip is the subject of his son Barron Lerner's book The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics (2014, Beacon Press).